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I can't think of a more inefficient way of paying for OSS than giving more money to congress to have them divy it up between various pork barrel/military spendi
by VirusNewbie 5y ago
I can't think of a more inefficient way of paying for OSS than giving more money to congress to have them divy it up between various pork barrel/military spending and hoping it eventually finds it's way into a competent programmer's hands.
Maybe just giving random people money in hopes one of them could become an OSS programmer, but even then, debatable.
I think it makes a lot more sense to have the companies just hire people to work on OSS more often.
- RNCTX 5y agoI agree with you. That's exactly what would happen (in the western democracies that exist now, and I use the term "democracy" in the most tongue in cheek way). Nonetheless, the point stands that the only thing stopping people from doing those things effectively is the people themselves.